[nealbran]

I have recently been trying to upgrade to a 1TB disk in my samsung Sky+ HD box and using a WD10EVCS after every 5 minutes my Samsung box just turns off. It would also stutter on the playback of recordings etc... I used copy+ to copying the programs over without any problems and prepare the new disk.

I fitted the original drive back in the box and it works fine.

I would like to hear other people's experiences and if anyone has long term success with the Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1 1TB or any other 1TB disk. It would be particularly interesting to hear if someone had the same problem as me and then used the Samsung hard disk without issue.

I believe as per another poster on box resets its all power related as my WD10EVCS is the same as below and the box can't handle it I believe.

"If you look at the specs. on the top of the drive fitted by Sky:
300GB Seagate DB35.3: +5v 0.72A, +12v 0.52A
Whereas the replacement drives that didn't work are:
1TB Western Digital WD10EACS: +5v 0.70A, +12v 0.55A
400GB Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80: +5v 0.78A, +12v 0.98A
and the one that does work is:
1TB Samsung HD103UJ: +5v 0.70A, +12v 0.50A
So maybe the issue is the 12v power consumption?
My hunch is that any drive which consumes more than 0.52A current at +12v is likely to fail"

Cheers

Neal